Sounds like a silly question but its an imporatnt prop in the play and i havent a clue where to start! Have tried google and not returned much in the way of novelty / toy missiles - does anyone know where i can find one (it would be about a metre or so in size) or how best to make one?
2006-09-12 07:56:39 · 11 answers · asked by latters 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
It all depends on size needed and how the prop will be USED (will people sit on it ?) and now long you need it to last.
Nibbles is headed in the right direction... carpet roll is cheap and easy to work with and light weight. PVC Pipe would work also... the end-cap is the perfect detector head. A fan will work for blades, or cut from sheet material (Aluminum or plastic). Ir a larger diameter is needed, it's down to ribs & stringers covered with hardboard or canvas
A metre in size (Length or Diameter) ?? The smallest US torpedo (airdropped) is about 8.5 in length and about one foot in diameter.
A submarine or ship launched torpedo should be at least 10 feet x 18 inches in diameter the (US Mk-48 is 19' x 21")
Good Luck
2006-09-12 10:14:34 · answer #1 · answered by mariner31 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could try attaching a funnel (with the point removed) to a few 2-litre bottles. Glue them securely with superglue. Then paint them to look like a torpedo. Make sure you attach a piece of plastic (maybe the bottom of a plastic bowl) to the bottom so you don't get the bumpiness of a 2-litre there. Good luck, hope this helped!
2006-09-12 17:14:07 · answer #2 · answered by Esma 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bit of metal pipe, the sort use in office air con etc, another piece of metal shaped into a cone, the fins from a desk fan and lots of duck tape. Then paint it with enamel or radiator paint to look authentic.
Depending on what you want to do with it you may be able to borrow a fake one if your town has a museum with a local war history section. Or see if you can contact the props department at the BBC, they might loan you one.
2006-09-12 08:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by No_More_Drama 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get a length of 4" plastic soil/vent pipe (The stuff that is connected to your toilet and is usually seen down the side of your house) Cut it to the length that you need.
Find something like a plastic bowl that will fit in one end and give it a rounded look.
At the other end cut some slots in the pipe and put bits of plywood in to make it look like fins.
You could also be smart and add a little propeller behind the fins.
When finished paint it with emulsion paint and thats it job done.
Hope this helps
2006-09-12 08:06:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would use a photograph of a missile that you would want to use as a sample. Depending on the size you want you can get some chicken wire and shape it roughly then get a bucket of glue and water and lots of news paper and cover it into the shape and let dry and paint. Paper mache.
2006-09-12 09:59:11 · answer #5 · answered by slipper 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-03-26 22:11:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drainpipe, the big ones they lay underground, an old fan and something conical and something dome shaped for either end. You could make those with papier mache
2006-09-12 07:59:05 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A 3ltr drink bottle with a fin made of corrugated cardboard and covered in foil
2006-09-12 08:32:14 · answer #8 · answered by Amanda K 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The cardboard tube from a roll of carpet would make a good body. You will get this free from any local carpet shop.
2006-09-12 08:03:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gas cylinders would look real with cardboard fins, but heavy.
2006-09-12 08:02:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋